{
 "metadata": {
  "purpose": "Rule-based peer sets for Lebanon, derived from published state data by a stated formula rather than selected by hand.",
  "built_by": "Data/build_peer_sets.py",
  "recipe": "python Data/fetch_ct_ucoa.py && python Data/build_peer_sets.py",
  "input_file": "src/data/ct_ucoa_town_indicators.json",
  "source": "CT Office of Policy and Management — Municipal Fiscal Indicators (Uniform Chart of Accounts program)",
  "dataset_id": "ej6f-y2wf",
  "source_url": "https://data.ct.gov/resource/ej6f-y2wf.json",
  "pulled": "2026-08-25",
  "dataset_last_updated": "2026-03-03",
  "match_year": "FY 22-23 (OPM fiscal_year_end 2023)",
  "rule": "Standardize each variable across all towns (log-transforming the skewed size and wealth variables), then rank towns by Euclidean distance to Lebanon in that standardized space. Variables are equally weighted. Nearest 12 are the peer set.",
  "why_logs": "Population, enrollment, and grand list per resident are heavily right-skewed. On raw values a few outlier towns dominate the variance and flatten real differences among mid-sized towns; on logs, the unit of distance becomes 'twice as big', which is the comparison that makes sense here.",
  "weighting_note": "Equal weights are a stated choice, not a fact. They were not tuned to produce a particular list.",
  "wealth_proxy_note": "Equalized net grand list per resident stands in for community wealth: it is the tax base per person restated to full market value, and it is the quantity that constrains what a mill rate can raise. Median household income would be a useful additional variable but the Census ACS API now requires a key.",
  "relationship_to_existing_sets": "Additional, not a replacement. The hand-built sets (Surrounding towns, DRG E) remain in use everywhere they already appear. Where this set and those sets disagree, the disagreement is itself worth showing.",
  "drg_note": "CT SDE District Reference Groups were created in 1996, last reassigned in 2006 on roughly 2000-census inputs, and have not been updated since. They were designed to compare school districts on family demographics — appropriate for education questions, not for municipal operations, and blind to town size.",
  "excluded": [
   "Groton (city)"
  ],
  "dropped_for_missing_data": [],
  "town_count_ranked": 169
 },
 "target": "Lebanon",
 "variable_stats": {
  "population": {
   "label": "Population (CT DPH estimate)",
   "log_transformed": true,
   "mean_of_transformed": 9.392518,
   "stdev_of_transformed": 1.111223,
   "target_raw": 7108
  },
  "enrollment": {
   "label": "Average Daily Membership enrollment",
   "log_transformed": true,
   "mean_of_transformed": 7.309335,
   "stdev_of_transformed": 1.228189,
   "target_raw": 865.0
  },
  "grand_list_per_capita": {
   "label": "Equalized net grand list per resident",
   "log_transformed": true,
   "mean_of_transformed": 12.211418,
   "stdev_of_transformed": 0.467644,
   "target_raw": 189667.583005
  },
  "school_age_share": {
   "label": "Enrollment as a share of population",
   "log_transformed": false,
   "mean_of_transformed": 0.127697,
   "stdev_of_transformed": 0.027724,
   "target_raw": 0.121694
  },
  "unemployment": {
   "label": "Unemployment rate, annual average",
   "log_transformed": false,
   "mean_of_transformed": 0.030079,
   "stdev_of_transformed": 0.00449,
   "target_raw": 0.0308
  }
 },
 "peer_sets": {
  "municipal": {
   "label": "Municipal peers",
   "purpose": "Town-side spending, debt, reserves, and tax comparisons.",
   "variables": [
    {
     "key": "population",
     "label": "Population (CT DPH estimate)",
     "log_transformed": true
    },
    {
     "key": "grand_list_per_capita",
     "label": "Equalized net grand list per resident",
     "log_transformed": true
    },
    {
     "key": "school_age_share",
     "label": "Enrollment as a share of population",
     "log_transformed": false
    },
    {
     "key": "unemployment",
     "label": "Unemployment rate, annual average",
     "log_transformed": false
    }
   ],
   "peers": [
    "Canterbury",
    "East Haddam",
    "Columbia",
    "Somers",
    "Middlefield",
    "North Branford",
    "Windsor Locks",
    "Prospect",
    "Beacon Falls",
    "Coventry",
    "Portland",
    "Willington"
   ],
   "ranked": [
    {
     "town": "Canterbury",
     "distance": 0.4858
    },
    {
     "town": "East Haddam",
     "distance": 0.508
    },
    {
     "town": "Columbia",
     "distance": 0.6187
    },
    {
     "town": "Somers",
     "distance": 0.6309
    },
    {
     "town": "Middlefield",
     "distance": 0.659
    },
    {
     "town": "North Branford",
     "distance": 0.6616
    },
    {
     "town": "Windsor Locks",
     "distance": 0.6704
    },
    {
     "town": "Prospect",
     "distance": 0.682
    },
    {
     "town": "Beacon Falls",
     "distance": 0.6841
    },
    {
     "town": "Coventry",
     "distance": 0.7116
    },
    {
     "town": "Portland",
     "distance": 0.7316
    },
    {
     "town": "Willington",
     "distance": 0.7542
    },
    {
     "town": "Killingworth",
     "distance": 0.8272
    },
    {
     "town": "Salem",
     "distance": 0.8741
    },
    {
     "town": "Cromwell",
     "distance": 0.9258
    },
    {
     "town": "Pomfret",
     "distance": 0.9353
    },
    {
     "town": "Thompson",
     "distance": 0.9358
    },
    {
     "town": "Woodbury",
     "distance": 0.9553
    },
    {
     "town": "Putnam",
     "distance": 0.9746
    },
    {
     "town": "Woodstock",
     "distance": 0.9917
    },
    {
     "town": "Thomaston",
     "distance": 0.9926
    },
    {
     "town": "East Windsor",
     "distance": 0.9927
    },
    {
     "town": "Chester",
     "distance": 1.0264
    },
    {
     "town": "Andover",
     "distance": 1.039
    },
    {
     "town": "Stafford",
     "distance": 1.0458
    },
    {
     "town": "Suffield",
     "distance": 1.0601
    },
    {
     "town": "Voluntown",
     "distance": 1.0618
    },
    {
     "town": "Watertown",
     "distance": 1.0714
    },
    {
     "town": "Haddam",
     "distance": 1.0732
    },
    {
     "town": "Chaplin",
     "distance": 1.0914
    },
    {
     "town": "Oxford",
     "distance": 1.0918
    },
    {
     "town": "Preston",
     "distance": 1.0927
    },
    {
     "town": "New Hartford",
     "distance": 1.0938
    },
    {
     "town": "Harwinton",
     "distance": 1.1043
    },
    {
     "town": "East Hampton",
     "distance": 1.1095
    },
    {
     "town": "Brooklyn",
     "distance": 1.1277
    },
    {
     "town": "Barkhamsted",
     "distance": 1.129
    },
    {
     "town": "North Stonington",
     "distance": 1.134
    },
    {
     "town": "Canton",
     "distance": 1.1404
    },
    {
     "town": "Southbury",
     "distance": 1.1407
    },
    {
     "town": "Plainville",
     "distance": 1.1691
    },
    {
     "town": "Middlebury",
     "distance": 1.1783
    },
    {
     "town": "Litchfield",
     "distance": 1.1835
    },
    {
     "town": "Berlin",
     "distance": 1.1856
    },
    {
     "town": "Marlborough",
     "distance": 1.1952
    },
    {
     "town": "Plainfield",
     "distance": 1.1968
    },
    {
     "town": "Deep River",
     "distance": 1.2059
    },
    {
     "town": "Bloomfield",
     "distance": 1.216
    },
    {
     "town": "Ashford",
     "distance": 1.2202
    },
    {
     "town": "Bolton",
     "distance": 1.2406
    },
    {
     "town": "Colchester",
     "distance": 1.2447
    },
    {
     "town": "Hebron",
     "distance": 1.2657
    },
    {
     "town": "Seymour",
     "distance": 1.2684
    },
    {
     "town": "Montville",
     "distance": 1.2718
    },
    {
     "town": "North Canaan",
     "distance": 1.2773
    },
    {
     "town": "East Lyme",
     "distance": 1.2831
    },
    {
     "town": "Rocky Hill",
     "distance": 1.2918
    },
    {
     "town": "Franklin",
     "distance": 1.3272
    },
    {
     "town": "Sprague",
     "distance": 1.334
    },
    {
     "town": "Wolcott",
     "distance": 1.3366
    },
    {
     "town": "Brookfield",
     "distance": 1.3449
    },
    {
     "town": "New Milford",
     "distance": 1.3498
    },
    {
     "town": "Windsor",
     "distance": 1.3511
    },
    {
     "town": "Redding",
     "distance": 1.3684
    },
    {
     "town": "North Haven",
     "distance": 1.3738
    },
    {
     "town": "Bethlehem",
     "distance": 1.3785
    },
    {
     "town": "Waterford",
     "distance": 1.3948
    },
    {
     "town": "Granby",
     "distance": 1.4011
    },
    {
     "town": "Burlington",
     "distance": 1.4082
    },
    {
     "town": "Ellington",
     "distance": 1.4146
    },
    {
     "town": "Griswold",
     "distance": 1.4147
    },
    {
     "town": "Eastford",
     "distance": 1.4385
    },
    {
     "town": "Lisbon",
     "distance": 1.4453
    },
    {
     "town": "Clinton",
     "distance": 1.4615
    },
    {
     "town": "New Fairfield",
     "distance": 1.4855
    },
    {
     "town": "Wethersfield",
     "distance": 1.5718
    },
    {
     "town": "Newington",
     "distance": 1.5723
    },
    {
     "town": "Winchester",
     "distance": 1.5804
    },
    {
     "town": "Westbrook",
     "distance": 1.5933
    },
    {
     "town": "Killingly",
     "distance": 1.5955
    },
    {
     "town": "Groton",
     "distance": 1.6293
    },
    {
     "town": "Bethel",
     "distance": 1.6607
    },
    {
     "town": "Cheshire",
     "distance": 1.6652
    },
    {
     "town": "Newtown",
     "distance": 1.6705
    },
    {
     "town": "Ledyard",
     "distance": 1.6728
    },
    {
     "town": "Stonington",
     "distance": 1.6749
    },
    {
     "town": "Hartland",
     "distance": 1.6789
    },
    {
     "town": "Colebrook",
     "distance": 1.7053
    },
    {
     "town": "Bethany",
     "distance": 1.7078
    },
    {
     "town": "East Haven",
     "distance": 1.7144
    },
    {
     "town": "Wallingford",
     "distance": 1.736
    },
    {
     "town": "Branford",
     "distance": 1.7536
    },
    {
     "town": "Guilford",
     "distance": 1.7582
    },
    {
     "town": "Bozrah",
     "distance": 1.7702
    },
    {
     "town": "Enfield",
     "distance": 1.784
    },
    {
     "town": "Scotland",
     "distance": 1.7933
    },
    {
     "town": "Shelton",
     "distance": 1.803
    },
    {
     "town": "Morris",
     "distance": 1.8111
    },
    {
     "town": "East Granby",
     "distance": 1.843
    },
    {
     "town": "Plymouth",
     "distance": 1.8484
    },
    {
     "town": "Durham",
     "distance": 1.8499
    },
    {
     "town": "Southington",
     "distance": 1.8618
    },
    {
     "town": "Old Lyme",
     "distance": 1.8951
    },
    {
     "town": "Vernon",
     "distance": 1.9024
    },
    {
     "town": "Torrington",
     "distance": 1.9286
    },
    {
     "town": "Sherman",
     "distance": 1.9378
    },
    {
     "town": "Madison",
     "distance": 1.9389
    },
    {
     "town": "Tolland",
     "distance": 1.9401
    },
    {
     "town": "Easton",
     "distance": 1.9683
    },
    {
     "town": "Milford",
     "distance": 2.0333
    },
    {
     "town": "Middletown",
     "distance": 2.0575
    },
    {
     "town": "Avon",
     "distance": 2.0674
    },
    {
     "town": "New London",
     "distance": 2.0728
    },
    {
     "town": "Simsbury",
     "distance": 2.1194
    },
    {
     "town": "Naugatuck",
     "distance": 2.1363
    },
    {
     "town": "Orange",
     "distance": 2.1532
    },
    {
     "town": "Hamden",
     "distance": 2.1565
    },
    {
     "town": "Farmington",
     "distance": 2.1994
    },
    {
     "town": "Manchester",
     "distance": 2.2006
    },
    {
     "town": "Old Saybrook",
     "distance": 2.2056
    },
    {
     "town": "Derby",
     "distance": 2.2088
    },
    {
     "town": "Essex",
     "distance": 2.2154
    },
    {
     "town": "Stratford",
     "distance": 2.2652
    },
    {
     "town": "Hampton",
     "distance": 2.2879
    },
    {
     "town": "Union",
     "distance": 2.3047
    },
    {
     "town": "Woodbridge",
     "distance": 2.3272
    },
    {
     "town": "Ansonia",
     "distance": 2.3504
    },
    {
     "town": "Bristol",
     "distance": 2.3524
    },
    {
     "town": "Monroe",
     "distance": 2.3632
    },
    {
     "town": "Goshen",
     "distance": 2.3711
    },
    {
     "town": "Danbury",
     "distance": 2.4003
    },
    {
     "town": "Canaan",
     "distance": 2.4265
    },
    {
     "town": "West Haven",
     "distance": 2.433
    },
    {
     "town": "Norwalk",
     "distance": 2.4743
    },
    {
     "town": "Norfolk",
     "distance": 2.48
    },
    {
     "town": "Fairfield",
     "distance": 2.4818
    },
    {
     "town": "West Hartford",
     "distance": 2.4882
    },
    {
     "town": "Glastonbury",
     "distance": 2.5422
    },
    {
     "town": "Lyme",
     "distance": 2.5465
    },
    {
     "town": "Norwich",
     "distance": 2.5487
    },
    {
     "town": "Trumbull",
     "distance": 2.6404
    },
    {
     "town": "Kent",
     "distance": 2.7701
    },
    {
     "town": "South Windsor",
     "distance": 2.7941
    },
    {
     "town": "Sterling",
     "distance": 2.8368
    },
    {
     "town": "Stamford",
     "distance": 2.8954
    },
    {
     "town": "Ridgefield",
     "distance": 2.9149
    },
    {
     "town": "Warren",
     "distance": 3.0136
    },
    {
     "town": "Meriden",
     "distance": 3.0544
    },
    {
     "town": "Mansfield",
     "distance": 3.0545
    },
    {
     "town": "New Haven",
     "distance": 3.0593
    },
    {
     "town": "Salisbury",
     "distance": 3.1438
    },
    {
     "town": "Bridgewater",
     "distance": 3.1521
    },
    {
     "town": "East Hartford",
     "distance": 3.2504
    },
    {
     "town": "Windham",
     "distance": 3.3111
    },
    {
     "town": "Cornwall",
     "distance": 3.3175
    },
    {
     "town": "Bridgeport",
     "distance": 3.7058
    },
    {
     "town": "Wilton",
     "distance": 3.723
    },
    {
     "town": "Washington",
     "distance": 3.7341
    },
    {
     "town": "Weston",
     "distance": 3.7394
    },
    {
     "town": "Greenwich",
     "distance": 3.7664
    },
    {
     "town": "New Britain",
     "distance": 3.8807
    },
    {
     "town": "Roxbury",
     "distance": 3.8964
    },
    {
     "town": "New Canaan",
     "distance": 4.1095
    },
    {
     "town": "Westport",
     "distance": 4.1712
    },
    {
     "town": "Sharon",
     "distance": 4.2614
    },
    {
     "town": "Darien",
     "distance": 4.5515
    },
    {
     "town": "Waterbury",
     "distance": 5.106
    },
    {
     "town": "Hartford",
     "distance": 5.1093
    }
   ]
  },
  "school": {
   "label": "School peers",
   "purpose": "Education spending comparisons.",
   "variables": [
    {
     "key": "enrollment",
     "label": "Average Daily Membership enrollment",
     "log_transformed": true
    },
    {
     "key": "grand_list_per_capita",
     "label": "Equalized net grand list per resident",
     "log_transformed": true
    },
    {
     "key": "school_age_share",
     "label": "Enrollment as a share of population",
     "log_transformed": false
    }
   ],
   "peers": [
    "Durham",
    "New Hartford",
    "Haddam",
    "Harwinton",
    "Killingworth",
    "Pomfret",
    "Columbia",
    "Preston",
    "East Haddam",
    "Canterbury",
    "North Branford",
    "Windsor Locks"
   ],
   "ranked": [
    {
     "town": "Durham",
     "distance": 0.0766
    },
    {
     "town": "New Hartford",
     "distance": 0.2257
    },
    {
     "town": "Haddam",
     "distance": 0.3326
    },
    {
     "town": "Harwinton",
     "distance": 0.3784
    },
    {
     "town": "Killingworth",
     "distance": 0.4014
    },
    {
     "town": "Pomfret",
     "distance": 0.4422
    },
    {
     "town": "Columbia",
     "distance": 0.459
    },
    {
     "town": "Preston",
     "distance": 0.4647
    },
    {
     "town": "East Haddam",
     "distance": 0.4649
    },
    {
     "town": "Canterbury",
     "distance": 0.4747
    },
    {
     "town": "North Branford",
     "distance": 0.5175
    },
    {
     "town": "Windsor Locks",
     "distance": 0.5344
    },
    {
     "town": "Somers",
     "distance": 0.5375
    },
    {
     "town": "Barkhamsted",
     "distance": 0.5495
    },
    {
     "town": "Putnam",
     "distance": 0.5724
    },
    {
     "town": "Middlefield",
     "distance": 0.6078
    },
    {
     "town": "Prospect",
     "distance": 0.6702
    },
    {
     "town": "Beacon Falls",
     "distance": 0.6725
    },
    {
     "town": "Suffield",
     "distance": 0.7114
    },
    {
     "town": "Coventry",
     "distance": 0.7198
    },
    {
     "town": "Salem",
     "distance": 0.7259
    },
    {
     "town": "Lisbon",
     "distance": 0.7311
    },
    {
     "town": "Deep River",
     "distance": 0.7359
    },
    {
     "town": "Portland",
     "distance": 0.7426
    },
    {
     "town": "Clinton",
     "distance": 0.7499
    },
    {
     "town": "Woodbury",
     "distance": 0.7756
    },
    {
     "town": "Sterling",
     "distance": 0.7799
    },
    {
     "town": "Willington",
     "distance": 0.784
    },
    {
     "town": "Stafford",
     "distance": 0.7857
    },
    {
     "town": "Winchester",
     "distance": 0.8332
    },
    {
     "town": "East Hampton",
     "distance": 0.8445
    },
    {
     "town": "North Canaan",
     "distance": 0.8594
    },
    {
     "town": "Voluntown",
     "distance": 0.8631
    },
    {
     "town": "Thomaston",
     "distance": 0.8636
    },
    {
     "town": "Thompson",
     "distance": 0.8861
    },
    {
     "town": "Oxford",
     "distance": 0.9015
    },
    {
     "town": "Hebron",
     "distance": 0.9018
    },
    {
     "town": "Killingly",
     "distance": 0.9053
    },
    {
     "town": "East Windsor",
     "distance": 0.9146
    },
    {
     "town": "Southbury",
     "distance": 0.9193
    },
    {
     "town": "Chester",
     "distance": 0.9246
    },
    {
     "town": "East Lyme",
     "distance": 0.9425
    },
    {
     "town": "Bloomfield",
     "distance": 0.9461
    },
    {
     "town": "Cromwell",
     "distance": 0.9543
    },
    {
     "town": "Watertown",
     "distance": 0.9662
    },
    {
     "town": "Bolton",
     "distance": 0.9674
    },
    {
     "town": "Chaplin",
     "distance": 0.9689
    },
    {
     "town": "Rocky Hill",
     "distance": 0.9733
    },
    {
     "town": "Plainfield",
     "distance": 0.9774
    },
    {
     "town": "Derby",
     "distance": 0.9816
    },
    {
     "town": "Seymour",
     "distance": 0.9859
    },
    {
     "town": "North Stonington",
     "distance": 0.988
    },
    {
     "town": "Andover",
     "distance": 0.9893
    },
    {
     "town": "Woodstock",
     "distance": 0.9908
    },
    {
     "town": "Marlborough",
     "distance": 0.9972
    },
    {
     "town": "Brooklyn",
     "distance": 1.0074
    },
    {
     "town": "Berlin",
     "distance": 1.0109
    },
    {
     "town": "Bozrah",
     "distance": 1.0231
    },
    {
     "town": "Ashford",
     "distance": 1.0282
    },
    {
     "town": "Litchfield",
     "distance": 1.0696
    },
    {
     "town": "Bethlehem",
     "distance": 1.0714
    },
    {
     "town": "Sprague",
     "distance": 1.0764
    },
    {
     "town": "Burlington",
     "distance": 1.0789
    },
    {
     "town": "Canton",
     "distance": 1.1086
    },
    {
     "town": "Bethany",
     "distance": 1.1126
    },
    {
     "town": "Montville",
     "distance": 1.1142
    },
    {
     "town": "Middlebury",
     "distance": 1.1275
    },
    {
     "town": "Plainville",
     "distance": 1.1466
    },
    {
     "town": "Franklin",
     "distance": 1.1692
    },
    {
     "town": "Granby",
     "distance": 1.172
    },
    {
     "town": "Colchester",
     "distance": 1.2215
    },
    {
     "town": "New Milford",
     "distance": 1.224
    },
    {
     "town": "North Haven",
     "distance": 1.2317
    },
    {
     "town": "Plymouth",
     "distance": 1.2373
    },
    {
     "town": "Eastford",
     "distance": 1.2385
    },
    {
     "town": "Newington",
     "distance": 1.2991
    },
    {
     "town": "Windsor",
     "distance": 1.3037
    },
    {
     "town": "Wolcott",
     "distance": 1.3295
    },
    {
     "town": "Waterford",
     "distance": 1.3391
    },
    {
     "town": "Griswold",
     "distance": 1.3447
    },
    {
     "town": "Groton",
     "distance": 1.3499
    },
    {
     "town": "Redding",
     "distance": 1.37
    },
    {
     "town": "Brookfield",
     "distance": 1.3878
    },
    {
     "town": "Ansonia",
     "distance": 1.396
    },
    {
     "town": "East Haven",
     "distance": 1.417
    },
    {
     "town": "Hartland",
     "distance": 1.422
    },
    {
     "town": "Shelton",
     "distance": 1.4357
    },
    {
     "town": "Ellington",
     "distance": 1.4475
    },
    {
     "town": "Wethersfield",
     "distance": 1.4729
    },
    {
     "town": "Cheshire",
     "distance": 1.4763
    },
    {
     "town": "New London",
     "distance": 1.4825
    },
    {
     "town": "Westbrook",
     "distance": 1.4897
    },
    {
     "town": "Branford",
     "distance": 1.4912
    },
    {
     "town": "Wallingford",
     "distance": 1.4922
    },
    {
     "town": "Ledyard",
     "distance": 1.5186
    },
    {
     "town": "Stonington",
     "distance": 1.5298
    },
    {
     "town": "Guilford",
     "distance": 1.5401
    },
    {
     "town": "New Fairfield",
     "distance": 1.5472
    },
    {
     "town": "Bethel",
     "distance": 1.5743
    },
    {
     "town": "Colebrook",
     "distance": 1.5746
    },
    {
     "town": "Newtown",
     "distance": 1.5889
    },
    {
     "town": "Scotland",
     "distance": 1.5958
    },
    {
     "town": "Madison",
     "distance": 1.6362
    },
    {
     "town": "Tolland",
     "distance": 1.6469
    },
    {
     "town": "Torrington",
     "distance": 1.6519
    },
    {
     "town": "Enfield",
     "distance": 1.6676
    },
    {
     "town": "Milford",
     "distance": 1.673
    },
    {
     "town": "Sherman",
     "distance": 1.6975
    },
    {
     "town": "Stratford",
     "distance": 1.7476
    },
    {
     "town": "East Granby",
     "distance": 1.7485
    },
    {
     "town": "Vernon",
     "distance": 1.7523
    },
    {
     "town": "Southington",
     "distance": 1.7529
    },
    {
     "town": "Middletown",
     "distance": 1.7564
    },
    {
     "town": "Old Lyme",
     "distance": 1.7629
    },
    {
     "town": "Orange",
     "distance": 1.785
    },
    {
     "town": "Morris",
     "distance": 1.8094
    },
    {
     "town": "Farmington",
     "distance": 1.8143
    },
    {
     "town": "Goshen",
     "distance": 1.8278
    },
    {
     "town": "Essex",
     "distance": 1.8279
    },
    {
     "town": "Hamden",
     "distance": 1.8823
    },
    {
     "town": "Old Saybrook",
     "distance": 1.9501
    },
    {
     "town": "Easton",
     "distance": 1.9542
    },
    {
     "town": "Naugatuck",
     "distance": 1.9583
    },
    {
     "town": "Avon",
     "distance": 1.9684
    },
    {
     "town": "Bristol",
     "distance": 1.9712
    },
    {
     "town": "Woodbridge",
     "distance": 1.9827
    },
    {
     "town": "Norwich",
     "distance": 2.0349
    },
    {
     "town": "Simsbury",
     "distance": 2.039
    },
    {
     "town": "Manchester",
     "distance": 2.0434
    },
    {
     "town": "West Haven",
     "distance": 2.0775
    },
    {
     "town": "Windham",
     "distance": 2.1391
    },
    {
     "town": "Glastonbury",
     "distance": 2.1571
    },
    {
     "town": "West Hartford",
     "distance": 2.1635
    },
    {
     "town": "Danbury",
     "distance": 2.2348
    },
    {
     "town": "Lyme",
     "distance": 2.2624
    },
    {
     "town": "Union",
     "distance": 2.2885
    },
    {
     "town": "Norwalk",
     "distance": 2.3029
    },
    {
     "town": "Canaan",
     "distance": 2.3673
    },
    {
     "town": "Norfolk",
     "distance": 2.3936
    },
    {
     "town": "Fairfield",
     "distance": 2.4571
    },
    {
     "town": "Monroe",
     "distance": 2.4633
    },
    {
     "town": "Hampton",
     "distance": 2.494
    },
    {
     "town": "Stamford",
     "distance": 2.5557
    },
    {
     "town": "Meriden",
     "distance": 2.5833
    },
    {
     "town": "East Hartford",
     "distance": 2.6206
    },
    {
     "town": "Mansfield",
     "distance": 2.7045
    },
    {
     "town": "Trumbull",
     "distance": 2.7376
    },
    {
     "town": "New Haven",
     "distance": 2.757
    },
    {
     "town": "South Windsor",
     "distance": 2.7777
    },
    {
     "town": "Kent",
     "distance": 2.8
    },
    {
     "town": "Bridgewater",
     "distance": 2.8359
    },
    {
     "town": "Bridgeport",
     "distance": 2.8361
    },
    {
     "town": "Cornwall",
     "distance": 2.8846
    },
    {
     "town": "Ridgefield",
     "distance": 2.9186
    },
    {
     "town": "New Britain",
     "distance": 2.9483
    },
    {
     "town": "Salisbury",
     "distance": 2.9913
    },
    {
     "town": "Warren",
     "distance": 3.0564
    },
    {
     "town": "Waterbury",
     "distance": 3.2885
    },
    {
     "town": "Roxbury",
     "distance": 3.2951
    },
    {
     "town": "Washington",
     "distance": 3.3902
    },
    {
     "town": "Wilton",
     "distance": 3.5966
    },
    {
     "town": "Greenwich",
     "distance": 3.601
    },
    {
     "town": "Weston",
     "distance": 3.675
    },
    {
     "town": "Hartford",
     "distance": 3.7779
    },
    {
     "town": "Sharon",
     "distance": 3.9097
    },
    {
     "town": "New Canaan",
     "distance": 4.1648
    },
    {
     "town": "Westport",
     "distance": 4.2261
    },
    {
     "town": "Darien",
     "distance": 4.5733
    }
   ]
  }
 },
 "target_statewide_percentiles": {
  "total_expenditures_per_capita": {
   "label": "Total expenditures per resident",
   "value": 4012.1307,
   "rank_low_to_high": 65,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 37.9,
   "statewide_median": 4217.0746
  },
  "education_expenditures_per_pupil": {
   "label": "Education expenditures per pupil",
   "value": 27244.7214,
   "rank_low_to_high": 139,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 81.7,
   "statewide_median": 22589.7065
  },
  "equalized_mill_rate": {
   "label": "Equalized mill rate",
   "value": 15.0686,
   "rank_low_to_high": 47,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 27.2,
   "statewide_median": 17.18
  },
  "grand_list_per_capita": {
   "label": "Equalized net grand list per resident",
   "value": 189667.583,
   "rank_low_to_high": 85,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 49.7,
   "statewide_median": 189667.583
  },
  "fund_balance_pct": {
   "label": "Total fund balance as a share of total expenditures",
   "value": 0.2142,
   "rank_low_to_high": 96,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 56.2,
   "statewide_median": 0.1985
  },
  "debt_per_capita": {
   "label": "Bonded long-term debt per resident",
   "value": 728.4033,
   "rank_low_to_high": 35,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 20.1,
   "statewide_median": 1740.556
  },
  "aid_share": {
   "label": "Intergovernmental revenue as a share of total revenues",
   "value": 0.2771,
   "rank_low_to_high": 124,
   "of_towns": 169,
   "percentile": 72.8,
   "statewide_median": 0.2055
  }
 }
}